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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Perhaps it is the cynic in me, but I would think the most obvious players that whould try
and compile and keep such a data base would be the legal staff of the DRM proponents.
Luck;
Ken
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They would have to be very clean about it though, and it's hard to compile such a database without potentially downloading some illegal books. Unless their database was limited to known legal/officially sold books only, in which case it wouldn't be of much use for removing pirated versions.
Even if they did have all illegal books in such database, I'm not sure it would benefit them. If they spot some book on Rapidshare etc., going by a link posted on the Net, they probably can't even ask Rapidshare to check its database for all copies of the ebook on various user accounts and remove them all, because some of those may be legally made backup copies by the original creator of the ebook. (I assume that Rapidshare saves its space, by calculating various checksums internally, and if they have identical 700MB video file on 100 different accounts, they store it only once on their servers).